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Shady Characters by Keith Houston
In Shady Characters, Keith Houston weaves a fascinating trail through the nooks and crannies of typographical history, from the …
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In Shady Characters, Keith Houston weaves a fascinating trail through the nooks and crannies of typographical history, from the …

"From the internationally bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most …

1913, unweit von Bagdad. Der Archäologe Robert Koldewey leidet ohnehin schon genug unter den Ansichten seines Assistenten Buddensieg, nun quält …

"At the same time as the Palestinian terrorist attacks during the 1972 Munich Olympics, a local man from a North …

Robert Schneider: Schlafes Bruder (German language, 1995, Reclam Verlag)
"Das ist die Geschichte des Musikers Johannes Elias Alder, der zweiundzwanzigjährig sein Leben zu Tode brachte, nachdem er beschlossen hatte, …

This edition is in Hebrew. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces …

The Fountainhead is an unprecedented phenomenon in modern literature. Arguably the century's most challenging novel of ideas, The Fountainhead is …

Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic …


Cherry Gilchrist: The Diary of a Young Girl (1998, Addison Wesley Longman)
Anne Frank's extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two …